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http://www.businessinsider.com/a-third-princess-diaries-movie-may-be-happening-2017-7A third 'Princess Diaries' movie may be happening — here's what we knowhttp://www.businessinsider.com/a-third-princess-diaries-movie-may-be-happening-2017-7
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:54:34 -0400Alyssa Giannone
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<h3 dir="ltr"><span>The INSIDER Summary:&nbsp;</span></h3>
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<li dir="ltr"><strong>A third installment in Disney's popular "Princess Diaries" series may be on the way.&nbsp;</strong></li>
<li dir="ltr"><strong>The book's author, Meg Cabot, revealed in an interview that "it could happen," but she wasn't allowed to say much more.&nbsp;</strong></li>
<li dir="ltr"><strong>Julie Andrews also revealed that they may do a third film in honor of the late Garry Marshall, who directed the first two movies.&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<p dir="ltr"><span>Everyone hold onto your crowns, because there&rsquo;s </span><a href="https://twitter.com/i/moments/891342263640510465" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">possibly a "Princess Diaries 3" in the works</a><span>.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span><a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/870079/everything-we-know-about-a-possible-princess-diaries-3-movie">Entertainment Weekly recently spoke with Meg Cabot</a>, the author behind the "Princess Diaries" book series, in honor of the 16 years since Disney graced us with the first film, starring Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis and Queen Julie Andrews as Queen Clarisse Renaldi. The movie resonated with girls and boys everywhere and many wished the life of Mia could be their own.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"><span>So after two movies and an intensely popular 16 years, what does the successful author think about a part three? &ldquo;Who knows?&rdquo; Cabot started. &ldquo;It could happen, as we say&hellip;&rdquo;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr">EW followed up with questions of plot and continuing where the former Princess Mia, now Queen Mia, left off. &ldquo;I am not allowed to say,&rdquo; said Cabot. &ldquo;I would love to sit and talk about it, but I can&rsquo;t. I&rsquo;m not allowed. But it&rsquo;s really more following the movie than the books, so if she &mdash; the last version I read, she definitely did not find out that she has a biracial younger sister&hellip; which I personally would&rsquo;ve thought was hilarious, but that was not the direction they were going.&rdquo;</p>
<p dir="ltr">There&rsquo;s some good news and bad news to dissect from this little chat. The good news is that there are talks about any plot at all, and that talk sounds like near-future talk. The bad news is that the films still won&rsquo;t stick to what happens in the books. This is normal for most adapted films, but precious things should stay precious.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Unfortunately, the director for the first two movies, Garry Marshall, died in June 2016, so any talk about a third installment has slowed down. But Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway have continued the discussion to put forth the third movie in his honor. &ldquo;I think we might do it in honor of him,&rdquo; <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/alannabennett/princess-diaries-3-tribute?utm_term=.uugW5dmVGR#.gymyxVKdQz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Andrews told <em>BuzzFeed</em></a>. &ldquo;Annie had an idea that she wanted to pursue about it, and I&rsquo;m all for it, so if she&rsquo;d like to&hellip;&rdquo;</p>
<p dir="ltr">All good signs point to a third "Princess Diaries," so be on the lookout, and thank you for being here today...</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/a-third-princess-diaries-movie-may-be-happening-2017-7#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/disney-is-remaking-19-cartoons-2017-3">Disney is remaking 19 of its classic cartoons as live-action films — here they all are</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/colossal-anne-hathaway-movie-review-2017-4Anne Hathaway just showed up everyone by making a great, weird monster movie no one saw cominghttp://www.businessinsider.com/colossal-anne-hathaway-movie-review-2017-4
Sat, 08 Apr 2017 09:45:00 -0400Jacob Shamsian
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<p>"Colossal," Anne Hathaway's new movie, is the type of film that could have easily been terrible.</p>
<p>It's a high-concept drama about female self-empowerment and the dangers of alcoholism. Hathaway plays a woman who — after struggling with her career, boyfriend, and drinking too much — moves back to her hometown in upstate New York, only to learn that she has a mental link with a <em>kaijū</em> monster terrorizing Seoul.</p>
<p>A high-concept story is, basically, a story with a "what if" premise that can be pitched in just a few words. It's been a popular genre for decades, usually because it turns a science fiction or fantasy conceit into a story that's easy to understand and imparts some kind of moral lesson, like Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone."</p>
<p>In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some of the best, most thoughtful comedies were high-concept films, including "Big" (a teenager who wishing to be an adult suddenly becomes one) and "Groundhog Day" (a weatherman lives the same day on repeat). They became more ambitious, producing some of the most important movies in Hollywood, like "Jurassic Park" (what if dinosaurs were alive today?) and "Toy Story" (what if toys could talk?).</p>
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<p>By the late 1990s and early 2000s, some of the better high-concept movies became increasingly creative, but the time period also began to produce some films that dated poorly. 1997 had "Face/Off" (what if an FBI agent swapped faces with a criminal?") and 2004 had "The Incredibles" (what goes on in a family of undercover superheros?). The same period also included <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343660/">creepy fare like "50 First Dates"</a> (a man falls in love with a woman with short-term memory loss) and eye-rollers like "Snakes on a Plane" (snakes are on a plane).</p>
<p>By now, high-concept movies are almost entirely awful comedies. In the past decade, we've had to witness "The Tooth Fairy" (Dwayne Johnson pretends to be the tooth fairy), "Bedtime Stories" (Adam Sandler tells his kids stories that come true), and the regrettable "Jack and Jill" (Adam Sandler plays his own twin, who is a woman).</p>
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<p>That's where "Colossal" comes in.</p>
<p>"Colossal" is by no means a perfect movie. The middle third, especially, is uneven, teetering in tone from absurdist dark comedy to threatening home-invasion thriller. But it is, for the most part, very good.</p>
<p>Anne Hathaway, once again, knocks it out of the park, and Jason Sudeikis demonstrates himself to be a shockingly effective dramatic actor. The ending, too, is a crowd-pleaser that nicely wraps the whole story together.</p>
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<p>And more importantly, "Colossal" shows what a high-concept movie can <em>do</em>. Its silly-sounding premise, where a young woman has a mental link with a monster on the other side of the world that allows her to control it — it's perfect for high jinks. And it is indeed occasionally funny, in a dark, people-are-getting-stomped-on kind of way.</p>
<p>But at the same time, writer-director Nacho Vigalondo's film explores serious issues, like the consequences of alcoholism and the bad decisions we make. That sounds mundane if the movie <em>didn't</em> have a monster that destroys Seoul in it.</p>
<p>Hopefully, "Colossal" signals the beginning of a new stage in the high-concept genre, where it can be restored to its former glory. It's certainly time.</p>
<h3><strong>Watch the trailer for "Colossal" below:</strong></h3>
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Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:11:00 -0500Amy Daire
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<p>When "The Princess Diaries" premiered in 2001, it became an overnight sensation. It had everything its watchers (primarily teenage girls) wanted: princesses, a big transformation, a love story, humor, and, of course, high school drama. With that much action rolled into one movie, it was an obvious hit.</p>
<p>Director Garry Marshall brought <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FC13EU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1">Meg Cabot's&nbsp;book</a><strong>&nbsp;</strong>to life by&nbsp;introducing the world to Anne Hathaway, who would go on to act in several big hits and eventually win an Oscar. It also brought Julie Andrews back into the limelight.</p>
<p>The other actors have gone on to do some amazing things as well.&nbsp;Here&rsquo;s what the cast is up to now:</p><h3>Anne Hathaway played Mia Thermopolis, who went from an unpopular high school student to Princess of Genovia.</h3>
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<p><p>This was Hathaway's&nbsp;film debut, which skyrocketed her to fame.&nbsp;</p></p>
<br/><br/><h3>Since then, she's starred in "The Devil Wears Prada," "Les Misérables," and "The Intern."</h3>
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<p><p>She snagged <a href="http://oscar.go.com/video/oscar-darlings/anne-hathaway-wins-best-supporting-actress-for-les-miserables">her first Oscar</a> in 2013 for her role as Fantine in "Les Mis&eacute;rables" and is now working on her next big movie, "Ocean's 8" where <a href="http://www.thisisinsider.com/oceans-8-photo-2017-1">she'll act alongside an array of amazing women</a> including Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, and Sarah Paulson.&nbsp;</p></p>
<br/><br/><h3>Julie Andrews, known for her iconic role in "The Sound of Music," perfectly portrayed the fabulous Queen Clarisse Renaldi.</h3>
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Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:43:31 -0400Nicholas Carlson
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/578d2358dd08951c618b45b1-1996/anne%20hathaway-2.jpg" alt="Anne hathaway" data-mce-source=" Larry Busacca/Getty Images"></p><p>Taylor Swift is getting pummeled on social media right now.</p>
<p>Supposedly, <a href="http://www.thisisinsider.com/kanye-taylor-swift-tape-leaks-kim-kardashian-2016-7">it's because Swift mishandled her reaction to a Kanye West song.</a></p>
<p>But <span>it feels like there's something else going on</span>.</p>
<p>It feels like the hate has something to do with Swift appearing too eager to please, too earnest, too put-together, and too successful.</p>
<p>For some reason, when we as a public see too much of someone like that, we want to tear her down. </p>
<p>We've seen it happen before.</p>
<p>Back in late 2012 and early 2013, Anne Hathaway — an eager-to-please, earnest, put-together actor — had a very bad few months.</p>
<p>In December 2012, she won a Golden Globe and gave a very awkward acceptance speech.</p>
<p>"Um, oh my gosh," she began. Then, in a stage whisper she said, "This is happening."</p>
<p>Social media had a field day with that one. It was so cheesy. What a theater kid.</p>
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<p>Then came the Oscars. Due to a screw-up by her designer, Hathaway had to find a dress at the last minute. She found one. But it had some very unfortunate stitching. The social media feedback was brutal. A hashtag, #hathahaters, gained steam.</p>
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<p>A Crushable writer named Alexis Rhiannon summarized the views of many, <a href="http://www.crushable.com/2012/11/10/entertainment/anne-hathaway-hosting-saturday-night-live-snl-les-miserables-the-devil-wears-prada-princess-diaries-528/">writing the following</a>: </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"When I see Anne Hathaway out in the world, I’m not into it. She’s like…too good. She’s too nice, too attractive, in too good of shape, too humble, too talented. With all those things, I should be obsessed with her. But instead I’m just not. I’m oddly disconnected.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">I watch her beautiful face do its talented acting and go — my my, what a large beautiful mouth. I don’t like it. Look at those dark beautiful eyes. I don’t like them. Listen to her skinny beautiful words. I don’t like them. Shut up. Shut up, Anne Hathaway. I honestly don’t know what it is. Maybe I’m jealous, but I don’t feel jealousy. I watch her in outtakes, and I feel like she’s not a real person. She’s always putting on accents and flittering around apologizing for mistakes that she didn’t make, and I just don’t get it. I don’t find her perfection charming. I find it annoying."</p>
<p>Eventually, The San Francisco Chronicle named Hathaway <a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2013/03/28/the-most-annoying-celebrity-of-2013-anne-hathaway/">"The Most Annoying Celebrity of 2013."</a></p>
<p>Naturally, all of this made Hathaway feel terrible.</p>
<p>In 2014, <a href="http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a3888/anne-hathaway-interview-1114/">Hathaway told Harper's Bazaar</a> that the morning after her 2013 Oscar win, she found herself asking Google a question: "Why does everyone hate Anne Hathaway?"</p>
<p>What came back was awful. </p>
<p>She told Harper's it all made her feel like she had been "punched in the gut. Shocked and slapped and embarrassed."</p>
<p>"Even now I can feel the shame," she said.</p>
<p><span>Meanwhile, none of the rest of us got much out of bringing her down. </span></p>
<p><span>So why are we doing the same thing to Swift?</span></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/something-else-is-going-on-with-taylor-swift-and-its-ugly-2016-7#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-would-happen-if-humans-tried-landing-on-jupiter-space-2018-2">What would happen if humans tried to land on Jupiter</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/anne-hathaway-james-corden-rap-battle-2016-5Anne Hathaway hurled insults at James Corden in an amazing rap battlehttp://www.businessinsider.com/anne-hathaway-james-corden-rap-battle-2016-5
Wed, 25 May 2016 09:57:45 -0400Jethro Nededog
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5745a9e852bcd01a008c4e3f-1069-802/anne%20hathaway%20james%20corder%20rap%20battle%20late%20late%20show%20cbs.jpg" alt="anne hathaway james corder rap battle late late show cbs.JPG" data-mce-source="Monty Brinton/CBS"></p><p>Anne Hathaway and James Corden didn't hold back in a heated rap battle on Tuesday's "The Late Late Show."</p>
<p>Whether it's in the Oscars or <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-lip-sync-battle-gets-celebrity-guests-2015-4" target="_blank">Comedy Central's "Lip Sync Battle,"</a> Hathaway has proven herself to be a worthy opponent. Corden surely knew he had to bring it if he were to invite her to take part in a rap-battling segment called "Drop the Mic."</p>
<p>And Corden did. He blasted her movie "Get Smart" for being a flop, dissed her awful British accent in "One Day," doubted she'd ever be asked to host the Oscars again, and attacked her in the Catwoman role.</p>
<p>"Now it's her turn to act a little scary," he rapped, "'cause the only Catwoman I acknowledge is Halle Berry."</p>
<p>Hathaway also pulled no punches in response. She said it was hard to come up with anything to rap, because "no one's heard" of him. Ouch. She also called his ratings "incredibly weak," and wondered if he ever wore a suit that fits.</p>
<p>"Blimey guvnah, did my accent make you sick?" she responded. "Are you also allergic to wearing suits that fit? Or did you grow a couple sizes since you got dressed? You look like a KFC bucket with a lot of extra breasts."</p>
<p>Yes, it's amazing.</p>
<p><strong>Watch the rap battle below:</strong></p>
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Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:11:11 -0500Anjelica Oswald
<p>Anne Hathaway wants to show her body on her own terms.</p>
<p>The Oscar-winning actress posted a photo of herself pregnant in a bikini on Instagram after spotting paparazzi taking photos of her while on vacation. Hathaway and her husband, Adam Shulman, are expecting a child this year. Her pregnancy was <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/700794/anne-hathaway-is-pregnant-oscar-winner-expecting-first-child-with-husband-adam-shulman-see-her-baby-bump" target="_blank">revealed</a> last November.</p>
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<p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BAGwCeiF0FZ/" target="_blank">Happy 2016 to my beautiful Instafriends! So, posting a bikini pic is a little out of character for me, but just now while I was at the beach I noticed I was being photographed. I figure if this kind of photo is going to be out in the world it should at least be an image that makes me happy (and be one that was taken with my consent. And with a filter :) Wishing you love, light and blessings for the year ahead! ⚡️🦄Annie🦄⚡️</a></p>
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<p>In her caption she explains that posting the photo was "a little out of character" for her, but, given the presence of photographers, she wanted to post her own photo that made her "happy."</p>
<p>Taylor Swift responded to paparazzi in a very similar way while on vacation last year in Hawaii with the band Haim.</p>
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<p>After posting the photo, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-belly-button-bikini-pic-instagram-2015-2">Swift told</a> Nick Grimshaw during his show on BBC Radio 1 that she had not planned to take it, but she didn't want <span>paparazzi to make a lot of money taking pictures of her during the trip, especially with Swift showing off her rarely seen belly button (which has <a href="http://www.etonline.com/news/166350_taylor_swift_rarely_seen_belly_button_becomes_a_meme/" target="_blank">become a meme</a>).</span></p>
<p>So Swift decided to preempt the photographers using her massively popular Instagram:</p>
<blockquote class="blockquote">"Basically, on the last day [of vacation] we see a fishing boat a half a mile away. We were like, 'That's a little weird. We're in the middle of the ocean scuba diving.' My security gets out binoculars and sees that they have a huge long-lens camera. At which point, we go back to the beach and we realize, 'Okay, so they got pictures of us in our bikinis, like, I don't want them to make like $100,000 for stalking us.' So we're like, 'Get up on the bow of the boat. We're taking better bikini shots, so they don't make as much money on theirs.'"</blockquote>
<p><span>It looks as if Swift's move may have inspired Hathaway's pregnant photo. After all, celebrities wield a lot more power over their image on Instagram. Now they're really showing it.</span></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-jessica-albas-acting-career-prepared-her-to-build-a-17-billion-startup-2015-12" >How trying to make it as an actor helped prepare Jessica Alba to build a $1.7 billion startup</a></strong></p>
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Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:29:18 -0400Alyson Shontell
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/560156ddbd86ef18008bc1fc-2362-1771/gettyimages-489504176.jpg" alt="The Intern premiere cast anne hathaway robert de niro" data-mce-source="Getty Images" /></p><p>The world premiere of Nancy Meyers' "The Intern" was Monday night at Ziegfeld Theater in New York City.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro, "The Intern" is&nbsp;about a startup founder, Jules, who builds&nbsp;a rocketship e-commerce company. Her company, About The Fit, launches a new program inviting people over the age of 65 to apply for a six-week internship.</p>
<p>De Niro plays a 70-year-old widower who&nbsp;no longer enjoys retirement. He applies to the internship and gets assigned to work directly for Jules (Hathaway), who initially wants nothing to do with him.</p>
<p>But as Jules faces increasing pressure both at work and with her marriage, she begins to lean on De Niro and the pair build a strong friendship.</p>
<p>"The Intern" delivers a feel-good plot that people across generations can relate to. It even gets&nbsp;the startup facts right. About The Fit is an 18-month-old Brooklyn startup that seems to model itself after real-life e-commerce companies Nasty Gal and Gilt Groupe. And, like many startup founders, Jules finds her venture capitalists are tough to deal with. Her biggest issues arise when her investors encourage her to hire a more experienced CEO which, as Hathaway's character&nbsp;accurately notes, is an issue both Gilt Groupe's founder and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg faced.</p>
<p>De Niro and Hathaway nail their performances and had the entire Ziegfeld crowd (which included Mariah Carey and Sting) rolling with laughter, hooting and hollering &mdash; particularly during a scene where Hathaway's interns have to break into her mother's home to delete&nbsp;an email Jules accidentally sent.</p>
<p>Other scenes were sentimental tear-jerkers. Nearly all the conflicts in the movie resolve themselves in the end, tying everything&nbsp;up in a nice little bow for viewers. Meyers can count "The Intern"&nbsp;as another win;&nbsp;it's similar in nature to her previous films "The Holiday," "It's Complicated" and "Something's Gotta Give."</p>
<p>"The Intern" is&nbsp;a good pick for families and, even though we were in a biased, high-energy premiere environment, we genuinely liked it.</p>
<p>To sum it up in one word, "The Intern" is cute. You can see it in theaters beginning on Thursday, September 24.</p>
<p>Here's&nbsp;what is it like to watch the premiere of a movie with the stars who are&nbsp;actually in it.</p><h3>The world premiere of "The Intern" was on Monday, September 21 at New York City's Ziegfeld Theater near Columbus Circle. There was already a crowd of people waiting for the stars to arrive when we showed up at 6:45 p.m.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>The red carpet was in full swing with cameras everywhere and reporters asking celebrities for interviews.</h3>
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<br/><br/><h3>Mariah Carey showed up as a surprise guest.</h3>
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Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:12:00 -0400Caroline Moss
<p>Anne Hathaway is back, and she came in like a wrecking ball.</p>
<p>In Thursday's episode of Spike TV's "Lip Sync Battle," Hathaway faced Emily Blunt, her costar in "The Devil Wears Prada," in a performance of Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" that came across as effortlessly fun and carefree.</p>
<p>This is not what people are used to from Hathaway, who in 2013 accepted the Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in "Les Miserables" and stood on stage and softly said "it came true" (a possible reference to the Les Mis song "I Dreamed a Dream") to seemingly no one but herself and the gold statue.</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5527d2676da81136311a6e44/it%20came%20true.gif" border="0" alt="It Came True"></p>
<p>After that, it was hard to visit any website without finding a post about Hathaway. Though she is a wildly successful actress, the running theme of that spring seemed to be contrasting her with Jennifer Lawrence, who was somewhat of an "America's sweetheart" after her breakout in "The Hunger Games."</p>
<p>Google the sentence <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=why%20does%20everyone%20hate%20anne%20hathaway">"Why does everyone hate Anne Hathaway"</a> and you get page after page of posts and essays on the topic, including a piece published in The New York Times in April 2013 titled "Do We Really Hate Anne Hathaway?"</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/fashion/what-is-anne-hathaway-doing-wrong.html?_r=0">From that article:</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"It's not really Anne Hathaway I 'hate,'" said Sarah Nicole Prickett, a writer for Vice and The New Inquiry, a culture and commentary site. "It's all the lesser, real-life Anne Hathaways I have known — princessy, theater-schooled girls who have no game and no sex appeal and eat raisins for dessert."</p>
<p>Ever since, Hathaway has been on a quiet mission to change the narrative that was being constructed for her by the public. And Thursday night, just a little over two years after that article was published, Hathaway took the stage with "Lip Sync Battle" host LL Cool J to mouth along the words to Mary J. Blige's "Love."</p>
<p>This is not the same Hathaway everyone was hating on in 2013.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5527da0a6da81168541a6e44/anne%2011.gif" border="0" alt="Anne 11"></p>
<p>Her carefree, fun-loving attitude was a 180-degree shift from her persona. She looked like the kind of girl you want to invite to your next karaoke party because she'd help the shy guests feel comfortable enough to get up and sing.</p>
<p>This is an Anne Hathaway you enjoy watching, and not just for mean tweet fodder.</p>
<p>Even Chrissy Teigen enjoyed it.</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5527d42b6da8111c361a6e44/anne%203.gif" border="0" alt="Anne 3"></p>
<p>Then Emily Blunt fought back with her lip-sync rendition of Blackstreet's "No Diggity."</p>
<p>Anne watched from the sidelines. So charming!</p>
<p><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5527d4a769beddad4c40432e/anne%2010.gif" border="0" alt="Anne 10"></p>
<p>Blunt gave Hathaway a run for her money. Anne even ran up on stage to "Kanye" Blunt as she was talking to LL Cool J (as if you could forget West's run-in with Taylor Swift at the 2009 VMAs). And it was funny, for a joke that's nearly six years old.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5527d554ecad041628d03753/anne%206.gif" border="0" alt="Anne 6"></p>
<p>Then came round two, where Blunt gave a rousing performance of Janis Joplin's "Piece of my Heart."</p>
<p>But it was nothing compared with what Hathaway had in store.</p>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5527d5c2eab8eabf72fe871d/anne%208.gif" border="0" alt="Anne 8"></p>
<p>The crowd absolutely lost it. It was a risk! Two years ago, we would have probably hated it. It would have been too theatrical, or too try-hard, or simply, just too much.</p>
<p>But inexplicably, it was a perfect move for Hathaway, who seems to have played a very active role in turning her reputation around.</p>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/5527d637eab8ea4479fe871c/anne%209.gif" border="0" alt="Anne 9"></p>
<p>Hathaway won Thursday night's episode of "Lip Sync Battle," and more importantly, she might have also won back all of our hearts.</p>
<p>Here's the full video:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/anne-hathaway-emily-blunt-lip-sync-battle-will-wreck-you#.deRXrQvvj">[h/t BuzzFeed]</a></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/anne-hathaway-singing-wrecking-ball-2015-4#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/drunk-driving-checkpoint-regulation-hack-2015-2">A lawyer in Florida has come up with an ingenious way for drivers to evade drunken-driving checkpoints</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/no-anne-hathaway-didnt-get-bmws-electric-i3-months-before-it-goes-on-sale-2013-12No, Anne Hathaway Didn't Get BMW's New Electric Car Months Before It Goes On Salehttp://www.businessinsider.com/no-anne-hathaway-didnt-get-bmws-electric-i3-months-before-it-goes-on-sale-2013-12
Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:30:58 -0500John Voelcker
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52c1c6a46da811d17d1cf3f0-480-/les-miserables-anne-hathaway-6.jpg" border="0" alt="les miserables anne hathaway" width="480" /></p><p>Sometimes the media don't quite know what they're talking about.</p>
<p>And so it was with a story that had actress Anne Hathaway importing one of the first 2014 BMW i3 electric cars from Germany for her husband because she didn't want to wait for it to go on sale in the U.S. next spring.</p>
<p>The story, which appeared in multiple outlets--including <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/celebrities/free/20131229anne-hathaway-imports-electric-car.html" target="_blank" title="Anne Hathaway imports electric car">Arizona Central</a>--was credited to <a href="http://www.bangshowbiz.com/index.html" target="_blank" title="Bang Showbiz">Bang Showbiz</a>.</p>
<p>That entity bills itself as "the world's premier entertainment news agency providing the most exciting celebrity news," but oddly does not appear to have the story on its own site &mdash; which hasn't been updated in two weeks.</p>
<p>More restrained coverage in the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/anne-hathaway-takes-spin-bmw-i3-electric-car-article-1.1560824" target="_blank" title="Anne Hathaway rides in BMW i3 electric car not yet available in America Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/anne-hathaway-takes-spin-bmw-i3-electric-car-article-1.1560824">New York Daily News</a> and the UK's <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2530612/Taken-ride-Anne-Hathaway-goes-spin-husband-Adam-Shulman-electric-car.html" target="_blank" title="Taken for a ride! Anne Hathaway goes for a spin with husband Adam Shulman in his electric car Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2530612/Taken-ride-Anne-Hathaway-goes-spin-husband-Adam-Shulman-electric-car.html">Daily Mail</a>, among others, simply indicated that Hathaway had "gone for a ride" in the car driven by her husband, Adam Shulman.</p>
<p>The idea that anyone, even a famous actress, could legally import a German-market car is somewhere between unlikely and idiotic.</p>
<p>The car shown in the photos is a European pre-production version of the BMW i3, one of a number temporarily imported by the maker for the Los Angeles Auto Show held in November.</p>
<p>Those cars are now being distributed across the country for test drives at dealers and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Obviously, some of them are being loaned to celebrities to use under the eyes of the paparazzi, thereby bringing free public relations and marketing for the car in anticipation of its spring launch.</p>
<p>If you look at the photos in the <em>Daily News</em> and <em>Daily Mail</em> links, there's a number on the windshield ("27" in this case) that will be familiar to anyone who attended the LA Show or got a ride in one of those cars.</p>
<p>Moral of the story: Don't believe everything you read--or at least check it with a reputable source.<br /><br /> [hat tip: Brian Henderson]</p>
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<p><em><br /></em><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/52c1c8a4eab8eaeb416167b6-807-403/2014-bmw-i3-2.jpg" border="0" alt="2014 bmw i3" width="800" /></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/test-drive-review-electric-bmw-i3-2013-10" >BMW's New Electric i3 Is No Tesla — But It May Be The Perfect City Car</a></strong></p>
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Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:16:00 -0500Kirsten Acuna
<p>After launching a <a href="http://www.interstellarmovie.com/index.php" target="_blank">website</a> earlier this week, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyc6RJEEe0U" target="_blank">first teaser trailer</a> for Christopher Nolan's largely anticipated space epic "Interstellar" is here, and we're not sure what to make of it.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Following "<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/gravity" target="_blank">Gravity</a>," <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/?ref_=nv_sr_2" target="_blank">Nolan </a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(the mind behind "Inception" and "The Dark Knight" trilogy) </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">obviously has some huge shoes to fill.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>Unlike the Alfonso Cuaron odyssey, Nolan's film will find its space team traveling through a wormhole. The teaser gives very little away about actual space travel and instead plays out as an inspirational tribute / love letter to venturing among the stars in the great unknown.</span></p>
<p>Matthew McConaughey (who has been making a name for himself as a serious actor in "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935179/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Mud</a>" and recent "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790636/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Dallas Buyer's Club</a>") and Anne Hathaway star along with Nolan favorite Michael Caine.</p>
<p>"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/" target="_blank">Interstellar</a>" is in theaters next November.</p>
<p><iframe width="620" height="360" frameborder="0" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/nyc6RJEEe0U"></iframe></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/actors-who-change-appearance-for-movies-2013-12" >27 actors who dramatically changed their looks for movies</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 23 May 2013 17:35:00 -0400Kirsten Acuna
<p class="p1">We finally get to see the Valentino gown Anne Hathaway <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/anne-hathaways-oscar-dress-2013-2" target="_blank">snubbed last minute at the Oscars</a> earlier this year.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Hathaway ditched the dress after hearing&nbsp;her "Les Mis" co-star Amanda Seyfried was <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-style/news/anne-hathaway-oscar-dress-switch-why-she-ditched-a-stunning-valentino-gown-last-minute-2013262" target="_blank">wearing something similar to the awards show</a>.</span></p>
<p class="p1">But Nicole Kidman benefited from Hathaway's dress diss, and just wore it at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of "Nebraska."<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><strong>First, here's the&nbsp;pale pink Prada dress&nbsp;Hathaway wore to the Oscars:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>A lot of people said it looked like an apron because of the tie in the back:</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/512b0156ecad04342900000e-475-719/screen%20shot%202013-02-25%20at%201.14.00%20am.png" border="0" alt="Anne Hathaway Oscars 2013" width="620" /></p>
<p><strong>And here's the one she turned down, worn by Kidman:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Here it is from the back:</strong><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/519e70b7eab8ea4f4f000001-2454-3502/nicole-kidman-cannes-dress%20.jpg" border="0" alt="Nicole Kidman Cannes dress " width="620" /></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/benedict-cumberbatch-deleted-scene-star-trek-2013-5" >A deleted scene from "Star Trek Into Darkness" ></a></strong></p>
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Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:40:00 -0400Aly Weisman
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5151b91e69beddaf5a000012-400-/james-franco-on-howard-stern.png" border="0" alt="James Franco on Howard Stern" width="400" /></p><p><a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/james-franco">James Franco</a> was a <a href="http://m.usmag.com/?redirurl=/celebrity-news/news/james-franco-i-understand-why-people-hate-anne-hathaway-but-weve-made-up-after-oscars-hosting-gig-2013253" target="_blank">guest on Howard Stern's&nbsp;Sirius XM radio show</a> Monday and it didn't take long before the conversation turned to Stern's open hatred of Franco's 2011 Oscars co-host, Anne Hathaway.</p>
<p><span><span>"Everyone sort of hates Anne Hathaway, and I've explained that I do too and I don't even know why sometimes," Stern explained. "She's just so affected [and] actress-y that even when she wins an award she's out of breath, and then she has the standard joke that sounds like it's [been] written [for her]. And it all seems so scripted and acted."</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Franco reluctantly took the bait, warning Stern,&nbsp;<span>"I'm happy to revisit this, but you're going to have to take the lead ... She does not want me talking about this, but okay."</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5151be2769bedd2b6b000005-722-541/anne-hathaway-james-franco-oscars.png" border="0" alt="Anne Hathaway James Franco Oscars" width="300" />Stern happily expressed his opinion further, adding, "She comes off like the goody two-shoes actress and it's just fun to sort of hate her. Hate is a strong word ... but [I] dislike her, even though she is a great actress. Is that accurate?"</span></span></span></p>
<p>"I'm not an expert on &mdash; I guess they're called 'Hatha-haters' &mdash; but I think that's what maybe triggers it," Franco agreed.</p>
<p>When Stern asked if Franco and Hathaway are friendly these days, the 34-year-old actor admitted "We haven't talked in a while" but despite <a href="http://perezhilton.com/2011-06-28-anne-hathaway-calls-out-james-franco-for-criticizing-her-oscar-personality" target="_blank">reports of a rift after the Oscars</a>,&nbsp;<span>"Anne and I made up, by the way. Let's just get that on the record."</span></p>
<p><span><span><span>"It was a really hard time after the Oscars," Franco added. "She wasn't mad at me, I don't think <span><span><span>... </span></span></span>she didn't say she was mad at me for what happened&nbsp;<span><span><span>... </span></span></span>The critics were so nasty."</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Franco also discussed his relationship with another young Hollywood starlet: Lindsay Lohan.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>After Stern asked about r<span>eports that he turned down having sex with Lohan, he responded, "<span>I don't want to like brag about it. I don't know how that got out."</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>"She was having issues even then, so you feel weird," Franco explained. "Honestly, she was a friend. I've met a lot of people that are troubled and sometimes you don't want to do that."</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Instead, Franco, who is currently dating his "Spring Breakers" co-star Ashley Benson, admitted&nbsp;<span>"I'm getting older. I would like a long-term relationship."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p>The couple, clearly comfortable together, made a music video this week<span>&nbsp;lip-syncing to "Love You Like a Love Song " by fellow "Spring Breaker" cast mate,<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span>Selena Gomez:</p>
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<p><iframe width="590" height="360" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mUBSZW-VkXA"></iframe></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/annoying-quotes-from-taylor-swifts-vanity-fair-interview-2013-3" >Taylor Swift is getting dangerously close to Anne Hatha-hater territory ></a></strong></p>
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Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:14:00 -0500Aly Weisman
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/5130c566eab8ea1548000016-400-/the-hobbit-dwarves-4.jpg" border="0" alt="the hobbit dwarves" width="400" /></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The final "Hobbit" film's </span><a href="http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/final-hobbit-film-bumped-back.html" target="_blank">release date has been pushed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> from&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">July 18, 2014 to December 17, 2014.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, </span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Martin Scorsese</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">'s star studded "Wolf of Wall Street" </span><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/martin-scorseses-wolf-wall-street-425498" target="_blank">gets a November 15 release date.</a></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The "Home Improvement" </span><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/home-improvement-team-sues-disney-425435" target="_blank">creative team is suing Disney for syndication money</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. This is the second suit against <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/disney">Disney</a> over the 90s sitcom starring </span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Tim Allen</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></li>
<li><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jennifer Lopez</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">'s ex-</span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Marc Anthony</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, 44, </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2285464/Marc-Anthony-44-goes-public-new-girlfriend-Chloe-Green-21-Disneyland.html" target="_blank">has gone public with his new girlfriend&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&mdash;</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2285464/Marc-Anthony-44-goes-public-new-girlfriend-Chloe-Green-21-Disneyland.html" target="_blank">21-year-old Topshop heiress <strong>Chloe Green</strong></a>. Does that make J.Lo's 24-year-old back-up dancer boyfriend old?</span></li>
<li><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ben Affleck</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/28/ben-affleck-shaved-beard-argo-oscar-photo/" target="_blank">showed off his freshly-shaved face for the first time</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> after </span><em style="line-height: 1.5em;">Argo</em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">'s Oscar win&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">as he arrived for a <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/ted">TED</a> conference in Long Beach.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The CW's "90120" has been&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.gossipcop.com/90210-canceled-series-finale-air-date-may-13-retrospective-cw/" target="_blank">cancelled after five seasons</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. The final show will air May 13.</span></li>
<li><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Justin Bieber</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a href="http://www.tmz.com/2013/03/01/justin-bieber-shirtless-photo-london/" target="_blank">celebrated his 19th birthday by walking through the streets of London half-naked</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. The clothed part of his body was clad in leather.</span></li>
<li><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Gwyneth Paltrow</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> finally </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2286217/Gwyneth-Paltrow-recalls-worst-Oscar-red-carpet-moments.html" target="_blank">admits she should have worn a bra</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to the 2002 Oscars.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While appearing on the "Late Show with&nbsp;</span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/david-letterman">David Letterman</a></strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">,"&nbsp;</span><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">Joan Rivers</strong><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/joan-rivers-on-anne-hathaway.html" target="_blank">told the late-night host she wants&nbsp;<strong>Anne Hathaway</strong>&nbsp;to just "calm down"</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;already.&nbsp;"I just think she's very, very happy to be Anne Hathaway ...&nbsp;Just the way she says, 'I can't wait to have a delicious plate of vanilla&nbsp;</span><em style="line-height: 1.5em;">vegan</em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp;ice cream.' Am I going to puke right here?" Rivers also blasted <strong>Adele</strong> for her weight.</span></li>
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<p><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.5em;">&nbsp; &nbsp; Watch her entire Oscars recap below:</span></p>
<p><object width="590" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://can.cbs.com/thunder/player/chrome/canplayer.swf?pid=qc1FIgHqVSaJ&amp;partner=cbs&amp;gen=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed width="480" height="270" src="http://can.cbs.com/thunder/player/chrome/canplayer.swf?pid=qc1FIgHqVSaJ&amp;partner=cbs&amp;gen=1" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/daenerys-from-game-of-thrones-looks-completely-different-in-real-life-2013-2" >Daenerys From 'Game Of Thrones' Looks Completely Different In Real Life ></a></strong></p>
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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:00:00 -0500Ashley Lutz
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/512e2bf9ecad043a2c000022-401-300/anne-hathaway-oscars-2013-1.png" border="0" alt="Anne Hathaway Oscars 2013" width="401" height="300" />On the Oscars red carpet, Anne Hathaway shared how she had only picked out her dress two hours before.</span></p>
<p>She chose <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/anne-hathaways-oscar-dress-2013-2">the pink Prada</a> for it's "simplicity" and because she found out her original dress choice would be similar to another one worn on the red carpet.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The problem?</p>
<p>She had supposedly already committed to wear a Valentino gown, <a href="http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/anne-hathaways-mea-culpa-at-oscars-6803802?module=hp-topstories">Women's Wear Daily</a> reported.</p>
<p>The design house had already alerted the media that Hathaway, the favored Oscar winner for supporting actress, would be wearing one of its designs.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Hathaway has a long-time relationship with the design house and her snub "ruffled some feathers," <a href="http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/anne-hathaways-mea-culpa-at-oscars-6803802?module=hp-topstories">WWD reported</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The designer even made her a custom gown for her wedding last year.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Valentino could have also used the exposure -- the only other major celebrity wearing one of its gowns was Jennifer Aniston, who shares a publicist with Hathaway. Aniston's outfit was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-and-worst-dressed-from-the-academy-awards-photos-2013-2">named on some of the "worst-dressed"</a> lists.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In a statement, Hathaway apologized for the snafu.&nbsp;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>"Though I love the dress I did wear, it was a difficult last-minute decision as I had so looked forward to wearing Valentino in honor of the deep and meaningful relationship I have enjoyed with the house and with Valentino himself," Hathaway said, according to WWD. "I deeply regret any disappointment caused.&rdquo;</span></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-and-worst-dressed-from-the-academy-awards-photos-2013-2" >The Best And Worst Fashions From Oscar Night ></a></strong></p>
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Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:33:57 -0500Jim Edwards
<p>Like a lot of actors, Anne Hathaway did some pay-the-bills jobs before she got cast in blockbusters like Les Miserables and The Dark Knight Rises. In the late 1990s, before cell phones existed in any meaningful sense, she made this spot for Cincinnati Bell Telephone's voicemail product and its agency Northlich, <a href="http://jezebel.com/5987195/teenage-anne-hathaway-tries-to-sell-you-a-landline-in-early-acting-job">according to Jezebel</a>.</p>
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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:56:00 -0500Kirsten Acuna
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/512bcabe69bedd6d18000005-400-/anne-hathaway-oscars-2013.jpg" border="0" alt="anne hathaway Oscars 2013" width="400" style="float: right;" /></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If you were watching the Oscars last night you may have had your attention diverted from Anne Hathaway's face in favor of her dress.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">From a mile away, it looked like you could see through the top of Hathaway's pale pink Prada gown.</span></p>
<p>The two big seams in the dress acting like arrows didn't help either.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Considering Oscar outfits are often planned out far in advance, wouldn't someone have caught this fashion faux pas ahead of time?</span></p>
<p>Maybe not.</p>
<p>On the red carpet, Hathaway divulged that she <a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/movies/awardsseason/sleeves-and-straps-are-barely-there-at-oscars.html?_r=1&amp;" target="_blank">decided three hours before the Oscars</a> to go with the Prada dress instead of a pre-planned Valentino.</p>
<p>And, this was after Valentino sent out a press release announcing Hathaway would be wearing one of its couture gowns.</p>
<p>It all boils down to a last minute decision.</p>
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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:20:00 -0500Global Macro Monitor
<p>Let&rsquo;s face it folks global markets have turned into the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYj2m1yVpGU" target="_blank">Truman Show</a>.</p>
<p>In other words, much, if not, everything is pretty much fake.&nbsp;&nbsp; An artificial housing recovery based&nbsp; on repressed interest rates and the effective nationalism of the mortgage market and an artificial stock market rally based on quantitative easing.&nbsp;&nbsp; The artificial wealth is, once again, creating, albeit just barely,&nbsp; fake and temporary demand.</p>
<p>Most of the private sector, twice burned by the stock and housing bubbles,&nbsp; can see right through it and refuse to expand capacity. &nbsp; Witness tepid economic growth, at best,&nbsp; even with the enormous fiscal and monetary stimulus.</p>
<p>Did you ever think in your wildest imagination that the printing money would become virtuous?&nbsp; That in our zero interest rate world one of the fast growing group of millionaires would be retired government workers with defined benefit pensions (present value of retirement payments)?</p>
<p>So with that introduction and Anne Hathaway taking home the Oscar tonight for best actress in a supporting role we repost a piece from a few years back.</p>
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<p><strong>Does Anne Hathaway Drive Berkshire&nbsp;Stock?</strong></p>
<p>Posted on <a href="http://macromon.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/does-anne-hathaway-drive-berkshire-stock/" title="2:59 PM">March 19, 2011</a> by <a href="http://macromon.wordpress.com/author/macromon/" title="View all posts by macromon">macromon</a></p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/512b38ca6bb3f7c907000009-321-223/sp-currency-co-movement1.jpg" border="0" alt="sp currency movement" />We posted last October <a href="http://macromon.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/all-things-correlated-stunning-aussiesp-500-relationship/" target="_blank">our suspicions</a> that algo/robo traders were driving the almost tick-for-tick correlation between the Australian dollar and the S&amp;P500.&nbsp; Remember those days of great fun?</p>
<p><a href="http://macromon.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/the-oscar-trade-long-berkshire-hathaway-on-annes-oscar/anne-berkshire-hathaway-4/"></a>Now, the <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/does-anne-hathaway-news-drive-berkshire-hathaways-stock/72661/" target="_blank"><em>Atlantic</em> suspects</a> that algorithms <strong>may</strong>, and we stress <strong>may</strong>,&nbsp; have been written and programmed to buy Berkshire Hathaway (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=BRK-A+Interactive#symbol=BRK-A;range=" target="_blank">BRK-A</a>) stock when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hathaway_%28actress%29" target="_blank">Anne Hathaway</a> is mentioned in the news!&nbsp;&nbsp; Alexis Madrigal of <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/does-anne-hathaway-news-drive-berkshire-hathaways-stock/72661/" target="_blank"><em>The Atlantic</em></a> writes,</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><em>A couple weeks ago, Huffington Post blogger Dan Mervish noted a funny trend: when Anne Hathaway was in the news, Warren Buffett&rsquo;s Berkshire Hathaway&rsquo;s shares went up. He pointed to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-mirvish/the-hathaway-effect-how-a_b_830041.html">six dates going back to 2008</a> to show the correlation. Mervish then suggested a mechanism to explain the trend: &ldquo;automated, robotic trading programming are picking up the same chatter on the Internet about &lsquo;Hathaway&rsquo; as the IMDb&rsquo;s StarMeter, and they&rsquo;re applying it to the stock market.&rdquo;</em></strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><em>The idea seems ridiculous. But the more I thought about the strange behavior of algorithmic trading systems and the news that <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/twitter-crystal-ball">Twitter sentiment analysis could be used</a> by stock market analysts and the fact that many computer programs are simply looking for tradeable correlations, I really started to wonder if Mervish&rsquo;s theory was plausible.</em></strong></p>
<p>Madrigal checked in with John Bates, former Cambridge computer whiz whose company <a href="http://web.progress.com/en/index.html" target="_blank">Progress Software</a> writes algo strategies for hedge funds to ask, &ldquo;Is this at all possible?&nbsp; Bates, to his surprise, answered &ldquo;Maybe.&rdquo;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em><strong>We come across all sorts of strange things in our line of business, strange correlations,&rdquo; Bates told me. &ldquo;And I&rsquo;ve had a lot of interest in this for a long time because it&rsquo;s really often the secret source for certain hedge funds.&rdquo;</strong></em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em><strong>Companies are trying to &ldquo;correlate everything against everything,&rdquo; he explained, and if they find something that they think will work time and again, they&rsquo;ll try it out. The interesting, thing, though, is that it&rsquo;s all statistics, removed from the real world. It&rsquo;s not as if a hedge fund&rsquo;s computers would spit the trading strategy as a sentence: &ldquo;When Hathway news increases, buy Berkshire Hathaway.&rdquo; In fact, traders won&rsquo;t always know why their algorithms are doing what they&rsquo;re doing. They just see that it&rsquo;s found some correlation and it&rsquo;s betting on Buffett&rsquo;s company</strong>.</em></p>
<p>Algo/robo trading appears to becoming not only more bizarre, desperate and reaching the level of the absurd. &nbsp; Imagine a program, for example,&nbsp; written to sell 10K S&amp;P500 futures contracts in illiquid market on the news of a report of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect" target="_blank">butterfly</a> flapping its wings at home plate at Wrigley Field momentarily interrupting&nbsp; a Cubs game.&nbsp; The selling drives the index down 2 percent.&nbsp; Another program written to sell several thousand&nbsp; contracts when the index moves down 2 percent in, say,&nbsp; a 45 second time period then kicks in, driving the index down another 3 percent.&nbsp; Several thousand other programs are written to sell&nbsp; several thousand more contracts when the market is down 5 percent.&nbsp;&nbsp; A <a href="http://www.ecopolis.org/edward-lorenz-does-the-flap-of-a-butterflys-wings-in-brazil-set-off-a-tornado-in-texas/" target="_blank">tornado on Wall Street</a> set off by the flapping of a butterfly&rsquo;s wings in Chicago?&nbsp; Hey, don&rsquo;t entirely discount such a scenario.&nbsp; This is probably not far from what happened during last year&rsquo;s &ldquo;Robots Gone Wild&rdquo; flash crash which was kicked off by the bank burning Greek riots.</p>
<p>At least we have some theories behind our correlations, such as the <a href="http://macromon.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/hang-seng-index-indicator-species-for-global-risk/" target="_blank">Hang Seng</a> as an indicator species for global risk appetite. &nbsp; And we did make some money once buying Callaway (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=ELY+Interactive#chart1:symbol=ely;range=1y;indicator=sma;charttype=candlestick;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=1;logscale=on;source=undefined" target="_blank">ELY</a>), the proud sponsor of Phil Mickelson, the Friday before he won his first Masters.</p>
<p>But&nbsp; good luck trying to trade against this type of nonsense.&nbsp;&nbsp; We also wonder if the robot has been reprogrammed to sell rather than buy <a class="hidden_link" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/nike">Nike</a> (<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NKE+Interactive#chart1:symbol=nke;range=5y;indicator=sma;charttype=candlestick;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=1;logscale=on;source=undefined" target="_blank">NKE</a>) after Tiger&rsquo;s downfall when he is now mentioned in the news. &nbsp; As they say on the newly paved <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://wallstreetpost.com/images/wall-street.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http://wallstreetpost.com/&amp;h=324&amp;w=432&amp;sz=142&amp;tbnid=icUKhIRrg4KFqM:&amp;tbnh=95&amp;tbnw=126&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3DWall%2BStreet&amp;zoom=1&amp;q=Wall+Street&amp;hl=en&amp;usg=___WCN7glkKM2Fja4LmntKe31bnDo=&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=sSeFTYL8FJHEsAOI8IHmAQ&amp;ved=0CHUQ9QEwCg" target="_blank">Street</a>, just go with the flow algo!</p>
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<p>Welcome to the Truman Show!&nbsp; Someday Truman is going to find out he lives in a fake world.&nbsp; Won&rsquo;t that be fun?</p>
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<p><strong>Read more posts on <a href="http://macromon.wordpress.com/">Global Macro Monitor &raquo;</a></strong></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-oscar-trade-long-berkshire-hathaway-on-annes-oscar-2013-2#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/anne-hathaway-told-kristen-stewart-to-break-a-leg-backstage-2013-2Anne Hathaway Told Kristen Stewart To 'Break A Leg' Backstagehttp://www.businessinsider.com/anne-hathaway-told-kristen-stewart-to-break-a-leg-backstage-2013-2
Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:14:00 -0500Leah Goldman
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/512ae49e69beddfb57000003-403-301/kristen-stewart-crutches-oscars-2013-1.jpg" border="0" alt="kristen stewart crutches Oscars 2013" width="403" height="301" /></p><p>Kristen Stewart showed up to this year's Oscars on crutches, and no one seems to know why.</p>
<p>Before announcing an award, Stewart ran into Anne Hathaway back stage, and <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/break-leg">here's how part of their conversation went</a>, according to the AP:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Please tell me you're going on stage with those," Hathaway said, pointing to the crutches.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Nope. I'm gonna hobble," Stewart said.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Well, break a leg," Hathaway said. "Oops."</p>
<p>Oops, Anne, oops.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/anne-hathaway-told-kristen-stewart-to-break-a-leg-backstage-2013-2#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/scarlett-johansson-reveals-she-didnt-get-les-mis-role-after-botched-audition-2013-2Scarlett Johansson Says She Didn't Get 'Les Mis' Role After Botched Auditionhttp://www.businessinsider.com/scarlett-johansson-reveals-she-didnt-get-les-mis-role-after-botched-audition-2013-2
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:37:00 -0500Aly Weisman
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/511a78b3ecad04b27b000010-400-300/scarlett-johansson-2.png" border="0" alt="Scarlett Johansson " width="400" height="300" /></p><p>Anne Hathaway is up for an Academy Award for her role as Fantine&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&mdash;&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">a prostitute with a heart of gold&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&mdash;&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">in this year's "Les Mis&eacute;rables."</span></p>
<p>But before Hathaway filled Fantine's bustier, a number of Hollywood's top actresses were <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1678293/taylor-swift-les-miserables.jhtml" target="_blank">vying for the role</a>.</p>
<p>Among them, Scarlett Johansson, who was previously rumored to be in the running for the role of Eponine&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&mdash; </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">which ended up going to newcomer Samantha Barks.</span></p>
<p><span>Johansson recently opened up to&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.broadway.com/buzz/167272/cat-star-scarlett-johansson-on-her-les-miz-film-audition-her-dream-role-and-how-ben-walkers-butt-is-the-ultimate-picker-upper/" target="_blank">Broadway.com</a><span>, which asked the actress whether she had auditioned for the part.</span></p>
<p><span><span>"Yes, I did. I sang my little heart out," the 28-year-old "Avengers" actress revealed for the first time.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>But there was one hitch: "<span>I auditioned with laryngitis ... I did everything I could to, like,&nbsp;</span><em>not</em><span>&nbsp;have laryngitis."</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Not that she was nervous about it, adding "<span>The jazz hands kid inside me was just over the moon!"</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>But, alas, Johansson has come to accept that the role wasn't meant to be.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>"I think, looking at the film now, there's no possible way I ever could have topped that performance [by Anne Hathaway]," she explains. "It was perfect and I think fateful and meant to be."</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/511a7cca69beddc240000015-1195-896/scarlett-johansson-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-broadway.png" border="0" alt="Scarlett Johansson Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Broadway" width="400" /></p>
<p><span><span><span><span>But it did remind her of auditioning for the role of Cosette when she was a child and "<span>it was fun for me to revisit that," she says.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p>Johansson is currently channeling her younger stage actress self on Broadway in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."</p>
<p><span>"Lucky for me, it all worked out," she continued to Broadway.com. "It&rsquo;s great to be back. It&rsquo;s very exciting to have the opportunity to bring Tennessee Williams to life every night and share that with the audience, who&rsquo;ve been really enthusiastic."</span></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/brangelina-kid-vivienne-getting-huge-payday-for-first-movie-role-2013-2" >Brangelina's baby getting huge pay check for first movie role ></a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/scarlett-johansson-reveals-she-didnt-get-les-mis-role-after-botched-audition-2013-2#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/oscar-luncheon-for-academy-award-nominees-photos-2013-2013-2Oscar Nominees Got All Dressed Up For The Academy Awards Luncheon [Photos]http://www.businessinsider.com/oscar-luncheon-for-academy-award-nominees-photos-2013-2013-2
Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:30:00 -0500Aly Weisman
<p id="titleValue" class="mdH"><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/51107f13ecad04892b000003-500-/jessica-chastain-kathryn-bigelow-megan-ellison-oscar-luncheon-2013.png" border="0" alt="Jessica Chastain Kathryn Bigelow Megan Ellison Oscar Luncheon 2013" width="500" /></p><p>Oscar nominees like Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman gathered at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles Monday for the 85th annual Academy Awards nominations luncheon.</p>
<p class="mdH">The lunch is one of the highest-profile get-togethers for Oscar nominees before the awards themselves on February 24 and everyone got all dolled up.</p>
<p class="mdH">See inside the Oscar Nominations Luncheon.</p><h3>Harvey Weinstein was in attendance to support his films "Django Unchained" and "Silver Linings Playbook," while Naomi Watts is up for a Best Actress award for her role in "The Impossible."</h3>
<img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/51103d2769bedde62d000004-400-300/harvey-weinstein-was-in-attendance-to-support-his-films-django-unchained-and-silver-linings-playbook-while-naomi-watts-is-up-for-a-best-actress-award-for-her-role-in-the-impossible.jpg" alt="" />
<br/><br/><h3>"Lincoln" director Steven Spielberg and "Les Misérables" star Anne Hathaway listened intently to a fellow nominee.</h3>
<img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/51103c14ecad04582d00000c-400-300/lincoln-director-steven-spielberg-and-les-misrables-star-anne-hathaway-listened-intently-to-a-fellow-nominee.jpg" alt="" />
<br/><br/><h3>Tim Burton showed off his latest accessory: a sling.</h3>
<img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/51103d576bb3f7741f000000-400-300/tim-burton-showed-off-his-latest-accessory-a-sling.jpg" alt="" />
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